These dev day sessions take place during the first two days of GDC March 19th and 20th) and offer you an opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the top players in the industry. ...

"I said at one point, 'look, we're not going to reasonably be able to balance this many cards, we don't have a team of people to do this,'" Mega Crit Games' Anthony Giovannetti tells Gamasutra. ...

Vaccination is a cooperative game where one player scans a body for bacteria, relaying that information to the player with the injector who must use the right vaccine to cure it. ...

Double Fine's Greg Rice chats about how the studio's indie publishing venture, Double Fine Presents, has grown from an experiment to a significant, profitable business -- and how devs can get involved. ...

Players will battle colossal bosses, their styles drawn from 1930s animation, as hot jazz blares in their ears in ever-escalating run and gun game Cuphead. ...

Side quests can make or break your game. Here, notable devs suggest some games that do side quests notably well, and Chris Avellone offers guidelines on how to design a great side quest. ...

This week's longform highlights include Phil Spencer's speech at the DICE Summit, how the Switch is encouraging people to play games they wouldn't otherwise, & rare documents on The Oregon Trail's history. ...

Bot Party lets players make beautiful music together through touch and machines, having them make physical connections while holding cute robots to produce songs. ...

Into the Breach is a game of tactical mech combat, one where the enemies telegraph their moves, turning each match into a kind of puzzle that needs to be studied and completed. ...

To prepare for the big GDC 2018 Level Design Workshop on Tuesday, March 20th, a handful of the speakers wanted to warm up by chatting (via email) about some of the finer points of level design.  ...